Commentary: Jeremiah Denton was a POW, an admiral, a senator and a hero

12:24 AM,
Apr. 2, 2014

Retired Admiral Jeremiah Denton is interviewed at his home on May 19, 1999, on Fowl River, Ala. Denton, who survived 7½ years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam and alerted the U.S. military to conditions there when he blinked the word "torture" in Morse code during a television interview, died March 28, 2014. He was 89.